** Description changed:

+ [Impact]
+ 
+  * NOAA changed the URL for the service metar relies on to retrieve weather 
information
+  * This has been fixed in 20061030.1-2.2 that is in YY and ZZ (LP: #1610210)
+    but not yet in XX (16.04 LTS) and previous releases
+  * justification: the metar program will not display any weather information
+    anymore without the fix (complete functionality loss for users)
+  * remedy: update URL in the source (it is hardcoded)
+    (a work-around is to set the environment variable to the new URL
+     METARURL=http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations)
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ 
+  * install metar # 20061030.1-2ubuntu2
+  * metar FACT # metar information for Cape Town Airport (CPT)
+    -> METAR pattern not found in NOAA data
+    (correct would be something like: FACT 251000Z 18020KT CAVOK 22/13 Q1017 
NOSIG)
+ 
+ [Regression Potential]
+ 
+  * just a hardcoded URL fix, no program change otherwise
+  * works in Debian sid & testing, Ubuntu YY and ZZ
+ 
+ [Other Info]
+ 
+  * Stable upload in progress as well for next Debian Jessie point-
+ release
+ 
+ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ 
  All metar fetches are failing:
  
  $ metar LSZH
  METAR pattern not found in NOAA data.
  
  Requests for
  http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/XXXX.TXT
  are now receiving a 302 redirect to
  http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/XXXX.TXT
  
  metar needs an updated METARURL, or to set CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION

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